With the postseason upon us, the 2022 men’s basketball coaching carousel is now really humming. As of Friday evening, there are 25 jobs that have changed, will change or had interim coaches who have been promoted to full-time.
Three of the jobs expected to flip did so on late this week. Cuonzo Martin was let go at Missouri on Friday. Bruce Weber announced his resignation at Kansas State after 10 years on Thursday. At Georgia, the school severed ties with Tom Crean after four years on Thursday as well. Potential candidates at those openings can be found in the capsules below. Also on Friday: David Cox was fired at Rhode Island, a move that was viewed as inevitable in recent weeks.
In talking to various sources in the past couple of weeks, it’s fair to expect at least another half-dozen power-conference jobs to open as March moves along.
The SEC is expected to be the league with the most amount of change, with the potential for as many as six jobs to come open (though I’d be surprised if the number was higher than four). Georgia was the first, and as previously reported here, Missouri coming open was no surprise. Mississippi State is expected to come open, according to multiple sources.
But not everyone on the hot seat is getting a pink slip. One coach who received good news Thursday: Stanford’s Jerod Haase. After Stanford lost against Arizona in the Pac-12 quarterfinals, Stanford AD Bernard Muir announced Haase would return for a seventh season. Speculation about Haase’s future increased heavily behind the scenes on Thursday prior to Muir ending that guesswork.
There are now five power-conference jobs with vacancies: Louisville, Maryland, Missouri, Kansas State and Georgia.
Notable on the Maryland front: USC announced Wednesday morning it’d signed Andy Enfield to a restructured contract through 2027-28. Enfield is in his ninth season at USC and, because he attended grad school at Maryland and is from that area, gained traction in the past two months as a viable candidate to take the Terps gig. That won’t be happening. Enfield has the 25-6 Trojans ranked No. 21 in the AP poll. Last year’s team made a run to the Elite Eight.
“My family and I are very happy to be part of the Trojan Family,” Enfield said. “I feel great about the future of USC basketball in the Pac-12 and nationally.”
Enfield is 182-116 at USC. The Trojans have won the third most games in the past three seasons of any team in a power conference (behind Baylor and Kansas). Elsewhere, Jim Larrañaga put the retirement whispers to rest: Miami announced Larrañaga has signed a new deal through 2025-26.
Other coaches who have been given another year: Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing, Arizona State’s Bobby Hurley, Nebraska’s Fred Hoiberg and NC State’s Kevin Keatts.
This story will serve as a continually updating home of all the latest as news comes in about who’s been hired, who’s been fired, retirements and more. It will be updated daily, sometimes multiple times in a day, so check back often.
